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I do not understand the recent fascination with people wanting to collect 800 or 1,000 satoshi every hour by hitting faucets. That was never my intention with freebitco.in. I always made it to be a place where people could have a bit of fun and play for a shot at winning a significant prize. The low rewards are in place simply so that if you do not win a big prize, you at least get something.
Well, if that's your goal, why not tweaking the payout structure to increase chances of winning anything higher than basic payout? Say, something between 10-20% instead of current 1.14%.
Judging on my referred list, it looks like most people would click few times and then let it go. Giving higher chance of winning even just slightly higher amount could give a small psychological boost to the users and could help maintain active users base.
Just my suggestion. It's your site and your decision.
Increasing the rewards would not be possible under the current circumstances because as it stands, the ad revenue that we get is not enough to pay the free play rewards which is currently subsidized due to the multiplier. So unless we get much larger multiplier volumes, we cannot pay more that what we currently are.
Maybe users would prefer to have a larger shot at winning $20 with no chance of winning $200. It is too much of a risk to adjust the payout tiers directly so I would need to run some tests to get a better idea of what kind of prizes people would prefer to win.